> So there are ancient versions of utilities due to GPL aversion and stuff. They're not ancient, but are mostly ports of recent FreeBSD (or occasionally some o

> So there are ancient versions of utilities due to GPL aversion and stuff. They're not ancient, but are mostly ports of recent FreeBSD (or occasionally some other BSD) utilities. Some of these have a lineage dating back to AT&T/BSD Unix, but are still the (roughly) current versions of those tools found on those platforms, perhaps with some apple-specific tweaks.